Chapter 424: Disasters from Ghosts
"The old path should be broken through in three to five days, you just need to wait."
"Recently, there have been many ghost disasters in Hanshui City. If you have nothing to do these few days, you can go catch ghosts near Hanshui City. You can also exchange them for contribution points when you return. I will write a letter of certification for you." Elder Gai said with a smile, taking good care of Lu Yang and the other three juniors.
"Ghost plague?" Lu Yang was puzzled. With the governor in charge of Hanshui City and the support of the Corpse Driving Sect, no ghost plague or disaster would dare to appear.
Elder Gai sighed, "Wasn't the last governor reported to the police and arrested? Along with him, a group of officials were also arrested. The officials in Huangzhou were transferred."
"At this time, many ghost disasters suddenly appeared in Hanshui City. Even with the rules, it is difficult to completely stop them. There must be someone in the Fusion Stage fighting against them in secret."
"The newly appointed governor had barely established himself when he encountered this kind of thing. He did not handle it properly, and the ghost plague was not effectively contained."
"The Jiuyou Cult is best at exorcising ghosts. The governor suspects that the Jiuyou Cult is behind this and is investigating it, but has not found any results."
"As a famous sect in the Barren State, my Corpse Driving Sect naturally takes on the responsibility and encourages disciples to solve the ghost plague. The level of the ghost plague is not high, which is enough for you to deal with."
"Of course, you can also choose to learn the art of driving corpses in our sect. It depends on your choice."
Lu Yang and Meng Jingzhou looked at each other and saw each other's confusion.
How could it be that the Nine Nether Sect was behind this? They were busy running a barbecue restaurant, so how could they have time to do this? Did they think the barbecue restaurant wasn't making enough money? No matter who caused the ghost disaster, as disciples of the Dao Sect, they had to deal with it.
After the group said goodbye to Elder Gai, the voice of the Immortal Fairy echoed in Lu Yang's mind.
"The old man just now was not a living person, but a zombie. His refining technique is quite advanced."
"Who?" Lu Yang thought he had heard it wrong.
"The old man just now."
Lu Yang's mind was in a whirlwind of thoughts, and he instantly thought of the most likely scenario, and he broke out in a cold sweat: Elder Gai died and no one knew about it, and someone refined Elder Gai's body to create the illusion that Elder Gai was still alive.
"Brother Zhao, I think there seems to be something strange about Elder Gai." Lu Yang asked tentatively.
Zhao Po gave a thumbs up: "Brother Lu has good eyesight. He can see that the person sitting there just now was not my master, but a living corpse refined by my master."
"What's going on?" Meng Jingzhou and Man Gu became interested.
Zhao Po explained with a smile, without hiding anything: "We corpse drivers are exposed to corpse qi and death qi all year round, which causes imbalance of yin and yang in our bodies, with yin being stronger than yang and yang being weaker, which leads to weakness of the physical body. Not to mention compared with physical cultivators like Brother Meng, even the physical bodies of ordinary cultivators are stronger than ours."
"All the skills of a corpse driver are reflected in the zombies he refines. For safety reasons, corpse drivers who have reached the Spiritualization Stage will no longer show their true faces to others, but let the zombies they refine replace themselves."
"It's not just my master. All the elders in the sect use zombies to walk around for themselves. No one knows where their real bodies are."
"Moreover, most corpse drivers are unwilling to communicate with strangers. They are shy and taciturn. It's a good opportunity to let zombies replace themselves. Why not do it?"
Corpse drivers deal with corpses all year round and are very introverted. People like Zhao Po are the minority.
"So that's how it is." Lu Yang suddenly realized that he was thinking too much.
"Will you go to our academy to study next, or should I take on a mission and help me solve the ghost plague?"
Lu Yang raised a smile and said righteously, "Of course we have to solve the disaster of ghosts. Old Meng has a single spiritual root and has formed two single golden pills. His pure yang body will make any ghost flee when they see him!"
"With Lao Meng here, solving the ghost plague disaster is easy!"
Although it was a rare occasion for Lu Yang to praise him, and what he said was the truth, Meng Jingzhou just couldn't be happy.
You are the one with single spiritual roots, your whole family has single spiritual roots! Sometimes Meng Jingzhou really wanted to give Lu Yang a set of single curse fists, but he didn't dare.
His intuition told him that if he used a single curse punch on Lu Yang, the backlash of cause and effect would be even more serious than it was now, and he would really be beyond help.
Just Lu Yang, wait until I become an immortal and then teach him a set of boxing skills! "So, can we take any missions in the Jindan stage?" Zhao Po thought, the four of them in the Jindan stage can sweep all the ghost missions in the Jindan stage.
Lu Yang waved his hand and said, "Be bold, even those in the Nascent Soul stage can take it."
Zhao Po was startled for a moment, but he quickly figured it out. If the four of them joined forces, it should not be a problem to deal with the ghost in the Nascent Soul stage.
"Okay, then I'll go find a mission for the Nascent Soul stage. You three can wait here for a moment."
While Zhao Po went to accept the task, Lu Yang had nothing to do, so he took out the Nine Nether Order, contacted Deputy Sect Leader Shi, and typed a message.
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"We have a Heavenly King in the Heavenly Palace who is in the Hanshui City of the Desolate State. He discovered that there was a disaster caused by ghosts here. The governor of the state suspected that it was you who did it. Did you do it?"
After waiting for a while, there was no response from the Jiuyou Order. Lu Yang thought that Deputy Sect Leader Shi was busy with something and did not look at the Jiuyou Order. When he was about to put it back, he saw that the Jiuyou Order was getting hot and a long paragraph of words appeared on its surface.
Lu Yang was speechless: "It turns out that it wasn't that Deputy Sect Leader Shi didn't see it, it was that he was writing frantically."
Deputy Master Shi responded: "This is pure slander. The bastards in the court are putting the blame on us again. Our Master thinks Master Lu's suggestion of 'store-to-store dialogue' is very good. There are too few strong people in the Nine Nether Sect right now. We should concentrate on training and increase the number of people in the Fusion Stage and even the Tribulation Stage. All activities of our Nine Nether Sect are in a semi-stagnant state. Everyone in the sect is busy opening chain stores to make money. This is the decision made by the Master."
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At the Jiuyou Sect branch, Deputy Sect Leader Shi was indignant when he saw Lu Yang's problem.
"We don't even have enough time to make money now, so how can we have the time to cause trouble? What benefit can we get? The imperial court has slandered us more than once. Whenever there is something unclear, they say it is our cult's doing. How can we, the cult, have the time to do these things!"
He cursed loudly while replying to Lu Yang. If this caused the Tianting Sect to misunderstand and think that the Jiuyou Sect was ignoring the overall situation and acting on its own, it would be difficult to have in-depth cooperation in the future.
After replying, he felt it necessary to explain something to Lu Yang and found that the Nine Nether Order could no longer be used.
"It still needs to cool down for five days. What a hassle."
Deputy Sect Leader Shi leaned back in his chair and looked at the ceiling. Suddenly, he slapped his forehead and said, "Hey, why should I worry about this? Isn't the Sect Leader in Desolate State?"
He took out another Nine Nether Order and told the leader what Lu Yang had said to see how the leader would deal with it.
The leader responded quickly, with only one sentence.
"I'm in Hanshui City."
(End of this chapter)